Re: [PATCH V3 5/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Add support for WLED4 peripheral

kgunda
2018-06-25T05:54:13Z

On 2018-06-23 04:39, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jun 04:00 PDT 2018, kgunda@codeaurora.org wrote:
>
>> On 2018-06-20 10:44, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> > On Tue 19 Jun 04:13 PDT 2018, Kiran Gunda wrote:
>> >
>> > > WLED4 peripheral is present on some PMICs like pmi8998 and
>> > > pm660l. It has a different register map and configurations
>> > > are also different. Add support for it.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Kiran Gunda <kgunda@codeaurora.org>
>> > > ---
>> > > drivers/video/backlight/qcom-wled.c | 635
>> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> > > 1 file changed, 503 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Split this further into a patch that does structural preparation of
>> > WLED3 support and then an addition of WLED4, the mixture makes parts of
>> > this patch almost impossible to review. Please find some comments below.
>> >
>> Sure. I will split it in the next series.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/qcom-wled.c
>> > > b/drivers/video/backlight/qcom-wled.c
>> > [..]
>> > >
>> > > /* WLED3 sink registers */
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC 0x47
>> >
>> > Drop the 3 from this if it's common between the two.
>> >
>> > > -#define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_MASK 0x07
>> > > +#define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_MASK GENMASK(2, 0)
>> > > +#define WLED4_SINK_REG_SYNC_MASK GENMASK(3, 0)
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_LED1 BIT(0)
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_LED2 BIT(1)
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_LED3 BIT(2)
>> > > +#define WLED4_SINK_REG_SYNC_LED4 BIT(3)
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_ALL 0x07
>> > > +#define WLED4_SINK_REG_SYNC_ALL 0x0f
>> > > #define WLED3_SINK_REG_SYNC_CLEAR 0x00
>> > >
>> > [..]
>> > > +static int wled4_set_brightness(struct wled *wled, u16 brightness)
>> >
>> > Afaict this is identical to wled3_set_brightness() with the exception
>> > that there's a minimum brightness and the base address for the
>> > brightness registers are different.
>> >
>> > I would suggest that you add a min_brightness to wled and that you
>> > figure out a way to carry the brightness base register address; and by
>> > that you squash these two functions.
>> >
>> There are four different parameters. 1) minimum brightness 2) WLED
>> base
>> addresses
>> 3) Brightness base addresses 4) the brightness sink registers address
>> offsets also
>> different for wled 3 and wled4. (in wled3 0x40, 0x42, 0x44, where as
>> in
>> wled4 0x57, 0x67, 0x77, 0x87).
>>
>
> Sorry, I must have gotten lost in the defines, I see the difference
> between the two register layouts now. If you retain the old mechanism
> of
> doing the math openly in the function this would have been obvious.
>
>> Irrelevant to this patch, but wled5 has some more extra registers to
>> set the brightness. Keeping this in mind, it is better to have
>> separate functions? Otherwise we will have to use the version checks
>> in the wled_set_brightness function, if we have the common function.
>
> Okay, so it sounds reasonable to split this out to some degree.
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn
> --
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